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Hello and welcome to the Research and Federal Relations website. Faculty member, student, or external collaborator — whatever brings you to our site, my staff and I are here to support your research and scholarship activity.

The mission of the Office of the Chief Research Officer (CRO) is to lead Texas State University, an Emerging Research University, in the execution of its Research Strategic Plan designed to achieve eligibility for National Research University Funding and ultimately Research University status. You can download the Strategic Plan for Research to learn more about NRUF status and our mission to become a nationally recognized research university.

In her Fall Convocation address, “The Drive for Research Excellence,” President Trauth laid out the University’s roadmap for achieving National Research University Funding (NRUF) status. It will be a long journey but we start the year off two steps closer to that goal thanks to major awards from NASA and the National Science Foundation for Texas STEM initiatives.

Billy C. Covington, Ph.D. Associate Vice President for Research and Federal Relations

C3 Project at Texas State University 2014

Major New Preaward Process

With the adoption of the Kuali Coeus software solution and PropStart application, the Office of Sponsored Programs provides increased functionality and more comprehensive preaward process for researchers. Learn more about KC and PropStart.

Website Redesign

In order to serve you better, we are in the process of redesigning the AVPR website. You’ll notice some big changes in the coming weeks but there will be no disruption of our mission-critical processes. If you have questions or need assistance, contact our eRA Help Desk for IRB, IACUC, REP and AVPR Website.

Spotlight Story of the month

Research Spotlight on GreenSoft: A Cloud Based Framework for Green Software Design and Education

The ubiquitous use of computers and mobile devices has substantially increased the energy consumption of IT systems. Meanwhile, the energy footprint of data centers keeps increasing and the battery life of mobile devices is now a top concern. To address these energy challenges, green computing has become a focus and made significant strides over the past decade at the hardware and systems level. For example, renewable energy such as solar and wind is now used to power some of today’s supercomputers, and the average power usage of data centers has substantially decreased. While the energy efficiency of IT hardware is continually improving, the energy efficiency of software has not kept pace. Dr. Ziliang Zong is working to change this. Read More

According to the 2014 report of the International Data Corporation(IDC), there are approximately 18.5 million software developers worldwide. Yet, the vast majority of today’s software developers either do not consider software energy efficiency at all or merely consider it as an after-thought Dr. Zong’s research focuses on running energy efficient software so that the IT field’s carbon footprint doesn’t continue to grow despite increasingly efficient hardware and infrastructure. Addressing software inefficiency, however, is not trivial because it requires a fundamental understanding of green software design and the tools to measure software energy consumption. More importantly, it needs the power of commercialization to push creative ideas originated from research labs to the real market. To address these challenges, Dr. Zong and his team propose to identify an appropriate business model and develop a feasible plan to commercialize the GreenSoft technology – and thus potentially enable millions of software developers to easily practice energy efficient software development.